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Headword: *)epileca/menos
Adler number: epsilon,2438
Translated headword: having reckoned
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] having measured, having calculated. "Heracles having reckoned the number of cattle [...]."[1]
And Herodotus [writes]: "having reckoned that, if on account of him the exiles came back to the city, he would become ruler of Naxos."[2] Meaning having calculated [this].
It also stands for having read.
"He found the writings and, having read [them], exposed everything that happened."[3]
Greek Original:
*)epileca/menos: a)nametrh/sas, a)nalogisa/menos. o( de\ *(hraklh=s to\n a)riqmo\n tw=n bow=n e)pileca/menos. kai\ *(hro/dotos: o( de\ e)pileca/menos, w(s h)\n di' au)tou= kate/lqwsin oi( fuga/des e)s th\n po/lin, a)/rcei th=s *na/cou. a)nti\ tou= a)nalogisa/menos. kei=tai de\ kai\ e)pi\ tou= a)nagnou/s. o( de\ eu(ri/skei ta\ gegramme/na kai\ e)pileca/menos e)le/gxei to\ pa=n, w(s e)ge/neto.
Notes:
The headword (aorist middle participle, masculine nominative singular, of e)pile/gw) is illustrated by all three of the quotations given.
[1] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.39.3.
[2] Herodotus 5.30.3, speaking of Aristagoras.
[3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 53 Habrich.
Reference:
E. Habrich, ed., Iamblichi Babyloniacorum reliquae (Leipzig: Teubner, 1960): Fragmenta (frr.1-89) pp.5-69
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; mythology; politics; zoology
Translated by: Kevin Arrowood on 22 May 2002@13:23:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 23 May 2002@03:31:59.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 23 May 2002@10:58:33.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 15 October 2012@09:52:23.
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